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December 04, 2008

Let the Right One In

Lat den ratte komma in, ie Let the Right One In, is my favorite film of the year so far. It's beautiful, strange, haunting, sad, and really scary. I waited a couple of weeks to see it, but it was hugely worth the wait.

A horror film that isn't really a horror film, it marries a whole bunch of my visual and thematic obsessions, so much that I was actually depressed when I left the theater in that "god, I wish I'd written that" sort of way. Now I really have to read John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel on which the film is based.

The movie won "Best Narrative Feature" at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's been getting great reviews, like this one, and even has a whopping 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It's been a good season for films--I also loved Gus Van Sant's Milk and thought Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (especially the first half) was pretty darn good--but there are few films I've seen that have blown me away as much as Let the Right One In.